Police: Handgun shown during assault on student in UMass Amherst dorm
UMass Amherst issued a campus-wide shelter in place order Thursday evening after a report of a “hostile armed person’’ in Pierpont Hall, a first-year dormitory.
After the order was lifted at about 7:15 p.m., the university said police are investigating an assault on a student in the dorm, in which a handgun was shown but not fired. The incident involved two suspects, who are not believed to be students and who fled campus, the university said.
The male victim suffered a laceration to his head and was taken to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton for treatment, according to the school.
UMass police said they do not believe the assault was a random act, and the school said police are “vigorously pursuing leads.’’
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